Category: Google Updates
Need-To-Know: Google My Business Shutdown of Reviews
From the start, Google has been in the business of providing relevant information to users. Currently, there is another priority: preserving the health of office workers. This combination of enterprise-level and mission-level goals is at the core of recent service changes. Google is temporarily changing Google My Business due to COVID-19 concerns. Most notably, the […]
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Effects of Google Plus Shutdown
October 8, 2018 – Google made an announcement on their official blog that Google+ will be shutting down in the upcoming months in light of the recent data breach that occurred during March 2018. Google kept this news a secret for a number of months, leaving a large number of profiles at risk. In their […]
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Google to Mark Non-HTTPS Site as Unsecure
In 2014, Google announced on their webmaster central blog that they are going to give higher ranking to HTTPS websites in their search engines to encourage everyone to switch their website from HTTP to HTTPS. Therefore, sites that used HTTPS got a boost of traffic over their counterparts using insecure HTTP. Over the past few […]
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Boost Your Business with Better PageSpeed Insights Score of Your Website
Certainly, a website for small businesses providing professional services, such as a medical clinic, HR consultancy agency, and law firm, is a great tool to develop and promote their brand. A site has to be not only great in appearance, but also great in performance. Improving your website’s PageSpeed Insights score is essential in order […]
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Google Kills off Content Keywords
Google has finally done what it said was going to take place in May 2016: to scrap the Content Keywords feature. The industry giant has set all the uproar and confusion to rest, and removed the feature from its Search Console in order to improve site analytics. Before we delve deeper into this news, let’s […]
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Google Goes Real-Time with Penguin 4.0
Google Penguin 4.0 is finally here and officially live now. Google announced its release in September this year, and revealed the significant changes it made and how it is going to affect websites all over the internet. It has been over two years since the last major update, Penguin 3.0, which was launched in October […]
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